Ken Burns has been making documentary films ... The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The ...

Award-winning documentary-maker Ken Burns tells Katty Kay about his unique approach to chronicling history, from the Civil ...

Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.

He was the subject of a Ken Burns documentary on PBS last year ... In fact, if this new rush of celebrityhood grows any more intense, Mark Twain may want to eat the words he aimed at another ...

The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. In introducing Twain, friend William Dean Howells said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen ...

Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV), the College of Charleston, SC250 and SC250 Charleston will welcome celebrated, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns to Charleston for an exclusive ...

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If you watched all of Ken Burns’ documentaries back to back ... founder of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American ...

Writer and producer Dayton Duncan has collaborated with Ken Burns on a host of award-winning ... So, for example, for the film about Mark Twain, I had to read everything that Mark Twain wrote ...